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PA insisted on seeing my daughter despite my repeated requests for a physician
As a patient, remember that you always have the right to ask to be seen by a physician. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Even on Thanksgiving.
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Epilepsy patient and former phlebotomist recounts her mismanagement by a neurology NP
An unsupervised nurse practitioner's negligence results in disastrous consequences for an epilepsy patient, including loss of her job and a trip to the ER for status epilepticus.
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Urgent care NP missed the diagnosis on myself, a pharmacist
A midlevel nurse practitioner's failure to recognize a classic textbook diagnosis results in unnecessary suffering for a patient.
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Dumb and Dumber: PMHNP student edition
NP programs should require their students to take an IQ test before admission so that they don't become the laughingstock of healthcare.
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Liar, liar, pants on fire: PMHNP student edition
This story from an NP group on Facebook provides a valuable glimpse into the types of bottom-feeding scum being accepted into NP schools these days.
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By all means, try intubating a preemie 11 times
Sadly, the proliferation of incompetent midlevels in neonatal ICUs, particularly neonatal nurse practitioners, is all too common these days.
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NP sends homicidal and suicidal patient home because she didn’t want to force family to take them to the hospital
Actively psychotic, suicidal, and homicidal. What could possibly go wrong when an NP is involved?
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Midlevels: A Pathologist’s Perspective
A pathologist shares some memorable interactions with midlevel providers - memorable in all the wrong ways.
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NPs get stuck in an infinite loop
Do you hear that noise? It's the AANP clamoring to trick the general public into thinking that patients seen by midlevel nurse practitioners have higher satisfaction and fewer unnecessary emergency room visits. Well, guess what? I'd be pretty goddamn unsatisfied if I went to the emergency
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My first Noctor experience
We've cured your child of cancer, now get the hell out of the hospital.
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ER NP checks labs, finds "no acute abnormality"
It's not like hypokalemia can be dangerous or anything.
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NP students don’t know rudimentary medicine
"But holy shit, you’d think interpreting a CBC was worthy of a Nobel prize after working with these people. FPA is lethal to patients."